Congressman Brett Guthrie attributes the negative relations between House Republicans and the Obama administration to a 2011 speech at George Washington University. There, President Obama publicly dissected the GOP budget plan with its author, Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, sitting in the front row of the audience. Read more.

The 2015 primary election season in Kentucky looks to be a spirited contest among a bumper crop of Republican candidates, while most Democratic contenders for statewide office are running with little or no primary opposition. Read more.

With Republicans now in control of the U.S. Senate and House, Rep. Hal Rogers is eager to get back to the regular order - that is, the traditional process of debating, amending, and voting on legislation, which he says had been stymied for four years by former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Read more.

Who is Sen. Mitch McConnell? Colleagues and political observers describe him as a consummate professional, a workhorse, a shrewd tactician who knows how to win elections, a patriot of Kentucky, and the most powerful Republican in the world. Read more.

State Sen. Gerald Neal is modest when asked about his role as the first African-American to hold a leadership position in the Kentucky General Assembly. He jokingly says he was in the right place at the right time with the right tools to do the job. Read more.

In 2006, Bill Goodman sat down with former Sen. Wendell Ford to record an interview for KET's One to One. Ford had been retired from the U.S. Senate for just over seven years, yet he was still deeply interested in politics and the issues facing Kentucky and the nation. Here are a few quotes from their conversation. Read more.